The metal and plastic packaging manufacturer has upgraded its ERP system using JD Edwards software, and is using OpenConnect's OC://WebConnect Pro to present a simplified front-end for employees, suppliers and customers.
Igepa Group, an association of six German paper wholesalers, has purchased a multimillion pound ERP system from JD Edwards. Igepa will use the software to handle distribution, finance, production, and warehouse management.
What it lends itself to is really price-packaging rather than a difference in the way we can add value to a company. There are a lot more opportunities [for datawarehousing] that will come from GPS as well as RFID - for example marketing in real...
Retail is also an area where real-time sales and inventory analytics can give a critical competitive edge. They were not designed to deliver complex analytics on terabytes of data quickly and, as the volume of data used in organisations grows...
The combination of GPS data with business intelligence enables the capture of real- or near real-time information into their enterprise database and applications, improving the decision-making process through using up-to-date, more accurate...
This is not GPS (Global Positioning System) technology. In addition, RFID makes it technically possible for marketers to obtain invaluable information on a host of consumer preferences, ranging from the clothes they like to the food they prefer.